Survey: Most Adults Don't Work In The Occupations That They Dreamed Of As Kids

NEW YORK(CBSNewYork) -- Childhood dreams crushed! A recent survey in the journal Social Forces found that just 6-percent of adults wound up in the careers that they wanted as children.

Steven Hanson told 1010 WINS' Carol D'Auria that he always dreamed of being a doctor.

"Actually a pediatrician. I loved my pediatrician. I always thought I was going to be a doctor. Instead I married one," he said, "I went into interior design."

Ethan didn't have a dream job.

"Right now I'm a nuclear medicine technologist, and I'm trying to make my way," he said.

Listen to Survey: Most Adults Don't Work In The Occupations That They Dreamed Of As Kids

The study did not examine why most people don't land the jobs that they dreamed of as children.

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